Peer Contexts for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Students: Reducing Stigma, Prejudice, and Discrimination

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stacey S. Horn ◽  
Katherine E. Romeo
Keyword(s):  
Transgender Students ◽  
Bisexual And Transgender ◽  
Prejudice And Discrimination ◽  
Peer Contexts

Supporting Our Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Students

2000 ◽  
Vol 5 (5) ◽  
pp. 24-26 ◽  
Author(s):  
Janet Henquinet ◽  
Anne Phibbs ◽  
Barbara Skoglund
Keyword(s):  
Transgender Students ◽  
Bisexual And Transgender

Challenging Respectability: Student Health Directors Providing Services to Lesbian and Gay Students at Historically Black Colleges and Universities

2018 ◽  
Vol 120 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-44
Author(s):  
Thai-Huy Nguyen ◽  
AndrÉs Castro Samayoa ◽  
Marybeth Gasman ◽  
Steve Mobley
Keyword(s):  
Focal Point ◽  
Research Question ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Gay And Lesbian ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Student Health ◽  
Extensive Discussion ◽  
Transgender Students ◽  
Private And Public ◽  
Bisexual And Transgender

Background Researchers have tended to favor scholarship that looks at institutional forms of support for gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender students in the context of resource centers specifically tailored to gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender students. Our study makes two distinct contributions to the study of gay and lesbian students of color: (1) We move away from resource centers as a focal point of support for students and attempt to explore the role of student health at 11 HBCUs; and (2) We draw attention to the ways in which health administrators challenge the influence of respectability to promote the delivery of healthcare that is attuned to the needs and experiences of sexual minorities, thereby providing evidence that pushes back against dominant narratives that reinforce HBCUs as homogenous communities of conservatism and homophobia. Research Question This study seeks to answer the following questions: (1) How do student health directors at HBCUs promote policies and practices that are attuned to the health of their gay and lesbian students? and (2) What conditions are developed to cultivate a student health center that not only addresses students’ physical health, but is also “in a position to reaffirm these students”? Participants Eleven student health directors at 4-year private and public HBCUs. Research Design The inquiry is situated within the tradition of narrative analyses. Semistructured interviews were conducted with our participants. Data Collection and Analysis We structured each interview around six broad open-ended questions that offered opportunities for us to tease out unique areas of tension during the interview and to “lead the respondent on a journey, to a frame of mind from which she will understand our ‘big’ questions.” These questions included perceptions of challenges and successes of campus inclusiveness for sexual minority students, clinical services, sensitivity training for staff, and the presence of same gender loving brochures and messaging. Findings Our data offers a narrative that illuminates the forces that shape the challenges and opportunities for student health directors (SHDs) to engender change within and outside student health centers and how that ultimately affects the provision of health services to gay and lesbian students. More importantly, it showcases how efforts are made to challenge the influence of respectability to ensure student health and well-being. The findings are organized under the following themes: (a) building trust, (b) partnerships, (c) resistance, and (d) envisioning next steps. Conclusions We provide an extensive discussion in how student health directors manage the challenges associated with dominant institutional ideologies, as well as critical implications for future research and practice.

“It Just Never Worked Out”: How Transgender and Gender Expansive Youth Understand their Pathways into Homelessness

2017 ◽  
Vol 98 (4) ◽  
pp. 284-291 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jama Shelton ◽  
Lynden Bond
Keyword(s):  
Homeless Youth ◽  
Qualitative Investigation ◽  
Structural Barriers ◽  
Health Care Education ◽  
Youth Homelessness ◽  
Bisexual And Transgender ◽  
Mainstream Society ◽  
Prejudice And Discrimination ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Limit Access

Many transgender and gender-expansive young people live outside of mainstream society, due to structural barriers that limit access to employment, health care, education, and public accommodations, as well as prejudice and discrimination within their families and communities. These structural barriers can be understood as cisgenderism. Though a growing body of research examines lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) youth homelessness, gaps in knowledge about the specific experiences of transgender and gender-expansive homeless youth remain. This phenomenological qualitative investigation explored aspects of transgender and gender-expansive youth's experiences related to homelessness. This article focuses on participants' understanding of their pathways into homelessness.

Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender College Students: Revisiting Retention

2020 ◽  
Vol 21 (4) ◽  
pp. 417-430 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kaitlin Legg ◽  
Andy Cofino ◽  
Ronni Sanlo
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Sexual Minority ◽  
College Campuses ◽  
Similar Nature ◽  
Gender Nonconforming ◽  
Transgender Students ◽  
Bisexual And Transgender ◽  
And Bisexual

In 2004, Sanlo published a proposed method to examine the lives and experiences of lesbian, gay, and bisexual college students and their persistence to graduation. Transgender students were not included except with regard to their identifying as a sexual minority. To date, neither further articles nor research of a similar nature have been published. Even with heightened visibility of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender students on college campuses, the literature still does not capture the specific and unique experiences of health, scholarship, and persistence of this population. These scholar–practitioner authors share their various experiences as directors of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) centers and why retention studies of the LGBTQ population are necessary as well as why transgender or gender-nonconforming students must also be included in such studies.

Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender students in engineering: Climate and perceptions

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kathryn F. Trenshaw ◽  
Ashley Hetrick ◽  
Ramona F. Oswald ◽  
Sharra L. Vostral ◽  
Michael C. Loui
Keyword(s):  
Transgender Students ◽  
Bisexual And Transgender
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